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When Peruvian green energy entrepreneur Luis Zwiebach wanted to buy an electric vehicle in 2019, he flew 4,000 miles to California to test drive Tesla’s Model 3 sedan. But Tesla lacked an official importer and he couldn’t find a way around Peru’s complex vehicle import procedures.

He was not deterred. “There was a gentleman who had already imported one and wanted to sell it,” Zwiebach said. “So I went to see it, and I bought it.”

Charging the Tesla initially proved difficult at his friend’s beach house outside Lima. “The car wouldn’t charge because there was no grounding device,” he said. “We grabbed a fork, stuck it into the soil to make a ground — and the car charged.”

As China's Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) will officially launch island-wide independent customs operation on December 18, a local customs official said on Tuesday that all software and hardware conditions for the Hainan FTP's island-wide independent customs operation have been met, with all preparatory work essentially finalized.

The island-wide independent customs operation will give Hainan greater latitude to explore and implement high-level opening-up measures, which will benefit the island's high-quality development and pave the way for nationwide reform and opening-up, experts said, noting that it sends a clear message to the world of China's firm commitment to expanding high-level opening-up.

From October 21 to November 11, the daily average parcel volume reached 634 million, 1.18 times the normal daily business volume, while the peak single-day volume soared to 777 million, setting a new record for daily parcel handling.

China's new-energy vehicle (NEV) market continued its strong momentum this year, with data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) on Tuesday showing that NEV production and sales maintained robust growth from January to October. NEV sales in October surpassed 50 percent of all new car sales for the first time, a milestone in the sector's rapid expansion, China Media Group (CMG) reported.

Chinese carmakers produced 27.69 million vehicles and sold 27.68 million between January and October, both up more than 10 percent year-on-year. NEV output reached 13.02 million units, rising 33.1 percent, and sales hit 12.94 million, up 32.7 percent.